The (Hehehehe), Republican Debaters and Their Reportage Pals
Not only was the debate a great vehicle for a Robin Williams chew-up of the furniture, but anyone one with an IQ above that of a turnip, could have performed a rip-roaring comedic satire of it, the participants, moderators and the followup reportage. Only Ron Paul made any sense. Well, MSM reporters, instead of simply not doing any viable research; maybe you ought to start reading OPEdNews.Com before writing your columns?
Well, I don't know through which fantasy-creating vehicle the LA times writers, and most of the other MSM were watching the debates, but their columns and cable reports, on them sounded like the sound bytes after each day of the OJ trial-so far from the court room evidence, reality, and the incompetence of the LA legal team and police, so contrived and unrepresentative and mundane, that they appeared Cream of Wheat-contrived. Aside from their ill prepared, ill-researched and weakly written MSM type news, it was a lesson like a Pollyanna singing, "Tiptoe through the Tulips,' while tiptoeing through the mind fields, until she blew herself and the rest of the planet up, unheedful of her responsibility to it, to do some research before acting like Pollyanna while the world is a conflagration.
As far as the actual participants, aside from those writing the whipped-fluffy article, report, all sounded, save Ron Paul, like jackasses, hypocrites.
Romney, so full of hubristic, hypocrisy, so phony, defending the treasonous, criminal Legalized Drug Dealing Industries through their $13,000 annual expenditure per doctor, who pimp their toxic, useless products, much cheaper than street drug dealers. Thompson, whose height seemed to far exceed his IQ with his patently hypocritical defense of Oil Company profits was sickening.
McCain so transparently groveling for the presidential power he thought should have been his long ago, but awakened from his slumbering fantasies just long enough to drill the oaf defender of the anti-Christ Bush/Cheney, the Bush sycophant, Romney.
Giuliani, so self-absorbed and toadying, blustering like his fascist pope, making me ashamed for the second time in my life, to be both Italian and Catholic.
And lastly Paul, who was the only man with semi-clean hands and conscience sitting on the all-white, all male, all Royalty-Mentality, all profit bloated, all war-mongering, all dripping with the blood of 1.5 million dead, 4 million casualties and 4.2 million Diaspora, who made any sense to anyone with an IQ above that of a kumquat, and was still being cast as odd-man out. This Was Without Doubt, The Most Guilty And Hypocritical Group Of Humans Ever Seen, Since The Last Republican Debates.
What does that tell you about a party, which believes illicit profits, blood, white-collar crime, are good, and color, race, females and anti-hypocrisy are bad, nauseating.
And the Moderators-ah, the moderators, never asking why oil is $3.65 at the pump in the USA, when it was $00.05 cents at the pump in Iraq before the war and is now $00.12 a gallon at the pump in Venzuela and in Iran and the other Arab-Muslim nations it costs their citizens, at the pump per gallon, less than a Hershey Bar costs Americans now.
Neither moderators, nor The LA Times, or any other MSM, mentioned that it costs, with delivery included, $00.02+ per gallon (2 Cents a gallon) to produce a gallon of oil, so that the cost of an American barrel of 44.2 gallons, 2.2 gallons more then other producers, brings the per barrel true cost to $00.99-. $1.50 a BARREL.
What A Barrel Of Sweet Crude Oil Makes. PRODUCT Gallons PER BARREL-THE Processing IN AMERICA OF CRUDE OIL, ACTUALLY Gains A Bonus OF 2.2 Gallons MAKING THE TRADITIONAL 42 Gallons INTO 44.2 Gallons. HERE Is HOW THE 44.2 Gallons Breaks Down gasoline-19.5, distillate fuel oil 9.2 (Includes both home heating oil and diesel fuel), kerosene-type Jet fuel 4.1, residual fuel oil (Heavy oils used as fuels in industry, marine transportation and for, electric power generation) -2.3, liquefied refinery gasses-1.9, still gas-1.9 Coke-1.8, asphalt and road oil-1.3, petrochemical feed-stocks-1.2, Lubricants-0.5, kerosene-0.2, other-0.3
Overall cost per barrel of Fuel oil, $00.99-$1.49 per barrel, delivery included. Price to USA Pumps $99.43 per barrel. Profit to the oil Companies producing and supplying the oil that costs them less than three cents a gallon to produce and deliver? $98.53
By-the-way, I say revoke the FCC license of ABC for not allowing Kucinich to debate.
And my* question, to the MSM everywhere, Why didn't you do the same research the rest of us do?
*Maybe you ought to start reading OPEdNews,Com?
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Cannot disagree with your assessment of the debates, and I hope OpEdNews readers go after ABC over Kucinich, like rabid Ron Paul supporters would.Without Kucinich there, I almost fell asleep listening to the Democrats jostling for position to agree with each other, yet differentiate themselves as well.For what it is worth, I would put the odds of the next president being a Democrat at 99.8%.
Did you notice how little indignation was expressed about how we got into Iraq?Remind me please if WMD were even mentioned.Obama must have said something.Seemed like that’s all water under the bridge now, American’s never remember yesterday’s news, and it’s now time to continue foreign policy as usual.Not surprising considering who the foreign policy advisors are for Clinton, Obama, and Edwards.It appeared that Bill Richardson’s job was to say periodically, “Let’s all stay nice and civil.We don’t want average Joe to think we don’t all get along…”
OK, granted oil companies are making huge profits right now, but … “Overall cost per barrel of Fuel oil, $00.99-$1.49 per barrel, delivery included. Price to USA Pumps $99.43 per barrel. Profit to the oil Companies producing and supplying the oil that costs them less than three cents a gallon to produce and deliver? $98.53”. I assume you are exaggerating for effect, or you have your own definition of “profit”.
According to Washington Post’s Steven Mufson, Nov. 17, 2007, “Saudi Arabia Works the Vast Desert To Pump Out More High-Quality Oil”, it costs the Saudis about $2 a barrel to produce a barrel of oil (delivery to the U.S. not included).According the same source, the exploration and development costs in Saudi Arabia are a quarter or less of elsewhere in the world (obviously because the location of oil in Saudia Arabia is already well known.)Taking higher costs elsewhere in the world into account, with delivery costs, refining costs, and distribution costs, your “profit” seems a tad high.But, perhaps you count the compensation received by every person who takes part in the oil industry along the way along the way: the tanker crew, the shipbuilder, the pipe manufacturers, the service station owner, etc, as “profit”.
Regarding what people pay in oil producing countries for gas, well, in Kuwait citizens get little coupon books they can use to get gas for “free”.That doesn’t mean the actual cost to produce, transport, refine, and distribute it is zero.
Just wondering if you think that gas costs less in the U.S. than in Europe because the supply chain there is even more “profitable” than ours, or our supply chain is relatively efficient by comparison.I’m not attempting to justify anything in our foreign policy here, just trying to separate economics from politics for a moment.
Finally, you are a new discovery for me here on OpEdNews and I just want to say I like your zany writing style.
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Paul Rye (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 253 comments)
on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 2:42:51 PM
We are close on price. No, not exaggerating. Zany is a good thought, I have been writing here just over a year. You might go to WRITERS ARCHIVES then across the top there is an alphabet, click "B" and when you arrive a the page of authors whose names begin with "B" scroll down 6 or 7 names to Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo. There you can find some 136 articles, some of which became rather famous after I called a few off the wall "Prophecies" which came to fruition and for some Zany was the mildest complement. Some indeed called them Zany and Prophetic. Especially the year old call on the Prosecutor of the Duke U. Boys and the Paris Hilton jailing and the fate of that prosecutor, but getting the most play was the July 13th call on the sudden death of Jerry Fallwell, which brought an huge swell of publicity to my art site painting of the many most cursed Neo-cons, most of which are now either under indictment, convicted, fired dead, or wishing they were. The picture was begun in 2003 and updated in 2005. You can see it if you go to my art website
Thanks for reading and writing.
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Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1216 comments)
on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 6:01:12 PM
my answer to your quote below, is in bold after your cpmment
"According to Washington Post's Steven Mufson, Nov. 17, 2007, "Saudi Arabia Works the Vast Desert To Pump Out More High-Quality Oil", it costs the Saudis about $2 a barrel to produce a barrel of oil (delivery to the U.S. not included).According the same source, the exploration and development costs in Saudi Arabia are a quarter or less of elsewhere in the world(obviously because the location of oil in Saudia Arabia is already well known.)"
Logistics is a price factor, but rather small and insignificant unless the volume is low. Actually the cost is so low because it is "sweet-oil" Venezuelan oil is not sweet, it is gunkier, so production is more expensive, and as I said, it was, at the pump, when the cost was $70 a barrel here, $00.12 a gallon at the pump in Venzuela and it was $00.05 at the pump in Iraq before the war supporting my post production price of $00.02346 a gallon, before retail at the pump mark-up. Other natiuons get 42 gallons to a barrel, we get, because ofg our production methods, 44.2 Gal. Per barrel, broken down as I have it in the article.
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Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1216 comments)
on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 9:24:49 PM
Halleluiah and Amen for YOUR "The (Hehehehe), Republican..."
Dear Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo,
Thank YOU, most sincerely, for caring enough to take the time, and being courageous enough to directly address these critically crucial matters with the, apparent, full emotional passion and sincerity, facts and honesty without any hedging (not the financial option kind, but rather 'Aword or phrase, such as possibly or I think, that mitigates or weakens the certainty of a statement.'), apologies or pathetic and feeble minded attempts to be 'politically correct', which would have had the effect of reducing the substance of the content of YOUR article to psychological mush. Thanks again.
For the best chances for solving any problem(s), when the symptoms are blatantly obvious, such as those YOU have so comprehensively and eloquently expressed, it is necessary to have clearest understanding of the fundamental root cause(s). From this perspective, here are a couple of clues to the fundamental roots of the 'non-thinking' mind set of "...anyone one with an IQ above that of a turnip, could have performed a rip-roaring comedic satire of it, the participants, moderators and the follow-up reportage.", as well as the majority of the mainstream media viewers and listeners (that I think about as; the psychological ass wipe's ass wipes):
1. Some years ago, I saw and heard an interview, on one of the major television networks, with the Education Editor for one of the major weekly news magazines. I think that man's name was/is Edward Fisk. That Education Editor made the statement that; "The education system in America does not teach people to think."
2. The feature article in the April 2001 issue of THE Atlantic MONTHLY magazine was titled, "The Next Ruling Class - Meet the Organization Kid", written by David Brooks. Here are some quotes from that article: "The young men and women of America's future elite works their laptops to the bone, rarely question authority, and happily accept their positions at the top of the heap as part of the natural order of life" - "The most sophisticated people in previous generations were formed by their struggle to break free from something. The most sophisticated people in this one aren't." - "Maybe adult institutions no longer talk about character and virtue because they simply don't know what to say. Our connection to that tradition have been snapped." That article has sections entitled "THE ORIGINS OF THE ORGANIZATION KID" - "THE MORAL LIFE OF THE ORGANIZATION KID", in which are these statements: "Then the leaders of Princeton were quite conscious of the fact that they were cultivating an elite. They thought it was only just and proper that these well-born men be at the top of society."
Sooo, we have "...at the top of society." those who have been intentionally and methodically "cultivated" to be rather completely loyal to and accepting of their unearned elite statuses, based on their corrupt programmed ignorant voluntary slavery mind set, in exchange for what they perceive to be financial security, and being 'HAPPY...at the top of the heap..."
I think and hope those clues help those who care to find the answer to YOUR question: "And my* question, to the MSM everywhere, Why didn’t you do the same research the rest of us do?" As David Brooks wrote: "because they simply don't know what to say." And cannot reasonably be expected to "...do the same research the rest of us do?", based on the facts above, for knowing the fundamental roots of the problem.
Thanks for the in-depth comment, which I know, is reality. While teaching I saw the unquestioned acceptance of "authority" much more prevalent in the far western suburbs than in the Cook County Illinois and city limits. But even there within that once Progressive City, people have begun to reaccept fascism as authority, as the current Mayor Daley is no more than a lip service democrat, whose actions and policies are closer to a loose sort of unempathetic Far Rightist, than a democrat. It is sad to say that those, who are the cornerstones of true democracy, are a dying breed.
With each generation the hope of wealth spurs fools whose chances of being among the tiny elite wealthy is next to nothing, but whose aspirations of wealth, and autocracy srtruggle vainly on to cowardly, sycophantic submission, and defense of and toward the very rich and their calculated suppression of freedom and their lack of empathy for those in need along with a selfishness, which aided and abetted by Organized Religions (not By The Living God) becomes contempt of all who do not share their mad lust for wealth at any other cost.
The Lord God on High looks down with unmitigated contempt for the avaricious and violent ones who claim to "Heed a higher father." "By their fruits, shall ye know them..." displays their "Higher father" to the Father of lies, Satan Himself. Hitler has indeed risen again and resides in bodies born shortly after his death, which are now residing in the White House. If ever a religion was infested with evil towards mankind in general and the empathetic and the poor and helpless, in particular, it is the mockery of Christianity which has burgeoned in the South of this nation and spread to the west and north west.
When the rest of those of justice have passed on, the world will be caught up in a horror (instigated by the Fascists once again), which has never in past, nor will in future be equaled, and then mankind steeped in justice and freedom, will have passed from the earth, for that is the wish of the Self-styled "Royalty of idiots" as rulers with impunity.
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Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1216 comments)
on Monday, January 7, 2008 at 11:23:01 AM
To watch the Republican is very difficult because I always end up wanting to throw something at the TV.They all with the exception of Ron Paul end up selling the same lies with different faces.They all want to take away our constitutional rights, give away American jobs, and make their millionaire buddies richer.
I think Hillary needs to join the Republicans with her new fear mongering talk about she is the only one who would know what to do the day after another terrorist attack.
I am glad to see more people taking interest in this mess. We as a country have let ourselves be lulled into a dull Britney stupor by these career politicians.
We need real change not as much from the politicians as from our citizens.We must stand up make our voices heard.
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Michael Chavers (41 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 168 comments)
on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 1:12:07 PM
